// when the DOM is ready...

function slider_weather() {

		var $weather_panels = jQuery('#slider_weather .scrollContainer > div');
		var $weather_container = jQuery('#slider_weather .scrollContainer');
		
		// if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
		// of the container
		var weather_horizontal = true;
		
		

		// elp
		// check if panels exists
		if ($weather_panels.length > 0) {
			

		
			// float the panels left if we're going weather_horizontal
			if (weather_horizontal) {
				$weather_panels.css({
					'float': 'left',
					'position': 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
				});
				
				// calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
				$weather_container.css('width', $weather_panels[0].offsetWidth * $weather_panels.length);
			}
			
			// collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
			// to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
			var $weather_scroll = jQuery('#slider_weather .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');
			
			// apply our left + right buttons
			if ($weather_panels.length > 1)
				$weather_scroll.before('<img class="scrollButtons left leftWeather" src="fileadmin/templates/css/screen/images/news_left.gif" />').after('<img class="scrollButtons right rightWeather" src="fileadmin/templates/css/screen/images/news_right.gif" />');
			
			
			
			// offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
			// padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
			// the offset.  Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
			var weather_offset = parseInt((weather_horizontal ? $weather_container.css('paddingTop') : $weather_container.css('paddingLeft')) ||
			0) *
			-1;
			
			
			var weather_scrollOptions = {
				target: $weather_scroll, // the element that has the overflow
				// can be a selector which will be relative to the target
				items: $weather_panels,
				
				
				// selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
				prev: 'img.leftWeather',
				next: 'img.rightWeather',
				
				// allow the scroll effect to run both directions
				axis: 'xy',
				
				offset: weather_offset,
				
				// duration of the sliding effect
				duration: 500,
				
				// easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
				// http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
				easing: 'swing',
				constant: false,
				lock: false,
				stop: true
			};
			
			// apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
			// supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
			// in to our navigation.
			//alert($('#slider_weather'));
			jQuery('#slider_weather').serialScroll(weather_scrollOptions);
			
			// now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
			// the effect
			// $.localScroll(weather_scrollOptions);
			
			// finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
			// setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
			// very first page load.  We don't always need this, but it ensures
			// the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
			weather_scrollOptions.duration = 1;
			jQuery.localScroll.hash(weather_scrollOptions);
		} 
}